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Plumber Patrick Leary tells the Plattsburgh Press-Republican that his crews have been putting in 18-hour days, seven days a week, in Clinton, Essex and Franklin counties. The problem is that frost has reached 4 feet or more into the ground this winter, when it's normally about a foot or so.
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State police say the body of man reported missing earlier this month has been found in the woods in northern New York. Troopers say officers with the city of Plattsburgh Police Department located the body late Wednesday morning off Rugar Street in the town of Plattsburgh.
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Authorities say they've found the body of the second of two men who died when their snowmobiles broke through the ice on a river along the Canadian border in northern New York. The Hogansburg-Akwesasne Fire Department tell the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh that searchers found Kirk Ransom's body early Sunday afternoon in the St. Lawrence River in Quebec.
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Emergency crews say they've found the snowmobiles two men were riding when they fell through the ice on a northern New York river, but the search continues for one of the riders. Officials tell the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh that the body of 26-year-old Brandon Sweeting was found last Sunday near where the Salmon River meets the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, across the border from Fort Covington in Franklin County.
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With wind-chill temperatures hovering around 30 below zero, rescuers are searching the Salmon River near the Canadian border for two missing snowmobilers. The Plattsburgh Press-Republican reports that the search began around 6 p.m. Sunday in the Franklin County town of Fort Covington.
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A trial is under way in a northern New York courtroom where a woman is charged with beating and stabbing her 65-year-old ex-boyfriend to death inside her Adirondack apartment in 2013. The Press-Republican of Plattsburgh reports that testimony began Thursday in Franklin County Court in the murder trial of 30-year-old Angela Ball.
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Authorities are awaiting results of an autopsy on the body of a 50-year-old upstate New York man who was found lying naked outside his trailer park home. State Police in Plattsburgh responded to a report Wednesday afternoon and found the unclothed body of Mark Brown on the ground.
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The state Department of Environmental Conservation is taking public comments on plans to modify a dam on the Saranac River a few miles upstream from Lake Champlain. The proposal for the Imperial Dam in Plattsburgh calls for decreasing the height of the spillway by 8 A1 2 feet and building a concrete fish ladder to let salmon and trout swim nine miles upstream to spawn.
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A 21-year-old man has pleaded guilty to assault charges stemming from a road rampage last summer that killed a northern New York couple and injured their daughter. The Press-Republican of Plattsburgh reports that Trevor Sisto of Fort Covington pleaded guilty Friday morning in Essex County Court under a plea agreement with prosecutors.
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State police say a 27-year-old man has been charged with making a bomb threat that resulted in the evacuation of a North Country Wal-Mart. Police say Matthew Hammond of Champlain was arrested by Plattsburgh-based troopers on Thursday and charged with first-degree falsely reporting an incident, a felony.
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State police tell The Press-Republican of Plattsburgh that the fire was reported to Essex County emergency dispatchers around 5:30 a.m. Saturday at a home on Route 9N in the town of Moriah, on Lake Champlain 95 miles north of Albany. Investigators say the fire killed 50-year-old Stephen Welch, who lived at the home, and 28-year-old Barry G. Raymond Jr. of Ticonderoga.
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An old grave in Burlington's Elmwood Cemetery holds the remains of Joseph Barron Jr., a little-remembered but critical hero to the American victory over the British in the Battle of Plattsburgh in the War of 1812. At least partly as a result of that victory, British and American negotiators signed the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the war, 200 years ago Wednesday.
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State police say they've arrested a 22-year-old New York man after he was found with marijuana, cocaine and LSD hidden inside a stuffed animal dressed in an anti-drug T-shirt. Troopers say Gregory Bolongnese, of Plattsburgh, was arrested Monday at the bus station in his hometown near the Canadian border.
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